Gay people Kenya say they would rather try risky alternativ than suffer huiatn at public hospals." data-reactroot="
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“After explag my prediment, the doctor asked if I was gay. The doctor asked him to go to pro-gay rights civil society groups stead, Ndiretu said.
While there is no prehensive data on the exact number of gay people Kenya, the Gay and Lbian Coaln of Kenya (GALCK) timat to be at 1. Strict ernment laws agast homosexualy mean that the anisatn nnot rry out a prehensive cens, acrdg to Kelly Kigera, an admistrator at GALCK. Human rights rearchers and activists have documented a steady rise of hostily agast gay people cludg harassment by ernment forc Kenya, which is still a nservative society.
The Kenyan nstutn guarante every cizen the right to healthre accs whout discrimatn but healthre workers ntue to vlate this provisn, pecially as gay men stay silent for fear of harassment or stigma. Police officers equently e this to harass and extort gay people who are then forced to bribe their way out of ctody. Wh homophobia all around them, gay people like Ndiretu and Onyango Kenya are shunng ernment hospals and rortg to unnventnal methods of treatg sexually transmted fectns.
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A group of gay men durg a sexual health semar at the Ishtar MSM centre Nairobi, Kenya [Courty: Ishar Centre]. While Onyango was lucky to get help om a gay rights lobby group which facilated his treatment at a private facily, Ndiretu was not so lucky. Worried by the number of gay men rortg to herbs to treat STIs Nairobi, Ishtar MSM, a muny-based gay rights anisatn now provis ee medil servic for men havg sex wh men (MSM).
Its director Peter Njane told Al Jazeera that anisatns like his are a relief to gay men who value privacy and fear discrimatn public health facili but nnot afford treatment private facili. “Due to the nfintialy of our servic, we have a huge number of gay people seekg our servic, ” said Njane. Majory are gay men who are yet to e out of the closet and only e to seek help after other treatment methods like herbal medic have failed.
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Joshua Kimani is -founr of SWOP Kenya, a nonprof nng a muny centre that offers unsellg and support servic to sex workers and gay men on safe sex and sexual ailments. The centre also nnects gay men who require specialised treatment to gay-iendly clics.
He says SWOP has attend to more than 3, 000 gay men sce 2008. Kenya’s health mistry through s Natnal AIDS and STIs Control Programme (NASCOP) says has been partnerg wh anisatns like Ishtar and SWOP to set up LGBTQ-iendly clics where gay people n eely accs health servic. Salim Hse, head of primary healthre at Kenya’s health mistry says that as much as the law is agast homosexualy, the mistry do not support discrimatn at s hospals.